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Democrats can save themselves with this One Weird Trick: Reject the Trump census
DC Breckner
A daring call to inaction: Democrats face death by reapportionment — but there's a hidden escape hatch. Take it!
Pandemic lessons for the rest of us
Liz Theoharis
Or vaccine thinking applied to all of American life
My year of obsessive, indifferent baking
Mary Elizabeth Williams
I've never needed my kitchen, and needed to get away from it, more
Republicans rebuff Trump, setting up a government shutdown as unemployment benefits expire
Igor Derysh
Republicans reject Trump's call for $2,000 checks with a looming government shutdown and unemployment aid expiring
GOP senator who voted for Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax cut for the rich blocks stimulus checks
Jake Johnson
"Millions are falling into poverty, and Ron Johnson — who loves tax cuts for the rich — is blocking help"
Will the Dems sell us out in the midst of a pandemic?
Leonard C. Goodman
When politicians sell out to win, we all lose.
Can “earmarks” fix Washington dysfunction? A former symbol of corruption is now a sign of hope
Igor Derysh
Earmarks have long been criticized as organized "bribery" — but some lawmakers think they can break D.C. stalemate
Did Mitch McConnell block relief bill for months because of a Kentucky nursing home mogul?
Roger Sollenberger
Businessman Terry Forcht carries a lot of weight in Kentucky politics, and he and McConnell go back decades
Perdue diverted military money to Trump’s wall — while profiting from his own Pentagon bill
Roger Sollenberger
Embattled Sen. David Perdue is now accused of self-dealing through a defense bill that he helped write
Ellen DeGeneres tests positive for coronavirus, pauses “Ellen Show” production
Jordan Moreau
The talk show host revealed her test results in a tweet on Dec. 10
Viral Michigan witness won’t quarantine after Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis test positive for COVID
Roger Sollenberger
Melissa Carone, whose testimony last week went viral, says she won't get tested unless OANN and Newsmax tell her to
Joe Scarborough on Harry Truman, Donald Trump and what the hell happened to the Republican Party
Dean Obeidallah
"Morning Joe" host says Trump's a "fascist" and his former party has lost its mind — but sees hope in the center
McConnell’s COVID plan has business tax breaks but $0 for unemployment boost and direct payments
Igor Derysh
McConnell drops federal unemployment boost from latest proposal while pushing a 100% business meal tax deduction
Did anything good happen in 2020? We dared ourselves to look for the bright spots
Erin Keane
2020 has been awful — but a few good things did happen this year
“Schitt’s Creek” was my saving grace in the early shutdown days
Erin Keane
When Moira Rose wailed, “Pick up a hammer and nail this coffin shut!” I felt it in my bones
Tyson Foods managers bet on how many of their workers would get COVID-19, lawsuit alleges
Kenny Stancil
"This is depraved," United Farm Workers said in a Twitter thread
Coronavirus cases are soaring again. But this time, some GOP governors say, no lockdown is coming
Patrick Svitek, Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff
The last time case numbers were this high, Abbott closed bars and urged Texans to avoid summer holiday gatherings
Protesters plan to take the streets if Trump claims false victory
Nicole Karlis
Here's where protests are planned, and how states are preparing for election day aftermath
Records show Trump’s border wall is costing taxpayers billions more than initial contracts
Perla Trevizo, Jeremy Schwartz
The border wall is costing about five times more per mile than it did under previous administrations
Eight months into the pandemic, nurses say they still aren’t getting the safety equipment they need
Matthew Rozsa
Salon spoke with nurses and other frontline workers who say their safety is threatened by negligent employers
Trump says he saved 2 million lives from COVID. Really?
Victoria Knight
Is there any truth to the idea that Trump is responsible for saving 2 million lives from COVID-19?
Psychologist Kevin Washington: Trump is waging “psychic terrorism” against Black Americans
Igor Derysh
Donald Trump didn't create the traumatic ideology of white supremacy, says Washington. But he helped unleash it
GOP Sen. Ben Sasse admitted that Trump “ignored” the coronavirus and “flirted” with white supremacy
Roger Sollenberger
Sasse asked why GOP thought "selling a TV-obsessed narcissistic individual” to America was “good" in leaked call
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